Decoy racks

Stevey Welsh wrote:I've seen people make the racks out of cedar, mahogony, and oak. The racks I have on my boat are oak, the thickness is like 3/8''(I have seen much thicker, my brothers is about 3/4"), and the height is only 5 or 6'' when i bought my boat the original racks that came with it were like 10'', pain in the ass literally getting in and out of the boat with them on as i ended up splitting one, one day getting out of the boat at the ramp so i cut them down. But most of the boats i've seen have racks about the same size.

Craig F wrote:1/2" cedar for mine. I like to keep them low profile, 4-5" or so.

Eddie Kershaw wrote:

Craig F wrote:1/2" cedar for mine. I like to keep them low profile, 4-5" or so.

Craig

Thanks for your reply mate, I take it that your cedar is white, I have been told that the red ceder rots like hell with the sea water, I dont know how true that is.

Take care and God Bless
Eddie and Amber

Craig F wrote:

Eddie Kershaw wrote:

Craig F wrote:1/2" cedar for mine. I like to keep them low profile, 4-5" or so.

Craig

Thanks for your reply mate, I take it that your cedar is white, I have been told that the red ceder rots like hell with the sea water, I dont know how true that is.

Take care and God Bless
Eddie and Amber

Eddie,

My rear racks are white cedar, but my fronts I made myself from red. So far, so good going through two seasons. They are painted with Parker's duck boat paint, which is pretty heavy stuff though. I would have used white, but ran out of patience to find it and had red available. I soaked them in water and bent them to shape while wet.

BTW I have a cousin who lives in Manchester, used to duck hunt with my dad many years ago, doesn't anymore though.

Eddie Kershaw wrote:As a lot of you guys know Im building a BBSB type boat out of marine ply and at this moment in time the temps are not to good for apoxy or laminating work so in the meantime Im just getting on with what woodwork I can, then have one big apoxy and laminating session in the spring has the temps warm up, so now I have got a few questions to ask reguards decoy racks.

1) what type of wood do you use.

2)How high do you have them.

3) what thicknees are they

4) would it be possible for somebody to post up some close up pictures for me so I can see how these fit together

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Take care and God Bless
Eddie and Amber.

dan s wrote:

Eddie Kershaw wrote:As a lot of you guys know Im building a BBSB type boat out of marine ply and at this moment in time the temps are not to good for apoxy or laminating work so in the meantime Im just getting on with what woodwork I can, then have one big apoxy and laminating session in the spring has the temps warm up, so now I have got a few questions to ask reguards decoy racks.

1) what type of wood do you use.

2)How high do you have them.

3) what thicknees are they

4) would it be possible for somebody to post up some close up pictures for me so I can see how these fit together

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Dan
Thanks very much mate those pictures will be very helpfull, I will save them on my laptop, if it would be possible could you please get me a few views of the rear decoy racks has I would like to see how they are fitted.


Take care and God Bless
Eddie and Amber.

Eddie

I have the same boat Craig has and have a similar setup (I think). The back racks came with the boat but I made racks for the bow. I used 1/2" white cedar for the racks and mounts and 5200 to mount them with stainless screws. They are 5 " high and about 24" long. Here are some pix of the front racks when I mounted them:







I can get you more pics if you like.